Hey, guys, this is truly amazing. When you see it, we keep hearing the advice. If you don't social distance, you will spread this virus. But now real data is in using all of our mobile phone signals on a heat map showing the spread. Today, you're about to see it in real time. Every little dot on this map is an active cell phone signal. The company tracking them tectonics shows this one beach in South Florida. Look at all the kids partying together over spring. Break all those phones so close to each other. Now watch this tectonics. Follow those same signals as spring break ended. Watch what happens. All those people clustered together now traveling homes interacting with hundreds or thousands of others all over the country. Jefferson Wilson is CEO of tectonics, joining us now by Skype Thanks for joining us. Thanks. So why did you do this experiment? What, you hoping we take out of it? Obviously, we were pretty shocked at what we found because it's really hard to conceptualize something like this. So what we're hoping to do is to show people rather than simply tell them how important social distancing is and what sort of impact It can have a community if it's something that you choose not to dio. They also mapped the spread from New York City, the results even more disturbing. What we did was we zoomed in on New York City over a two day period, and then we zoom back out just to see what travel out of New York City looked like. They went everywhere from Maine, California, Texas, North Dakota all over the map. And this is how fast the virus can spread. We're seeing it right there. Yeah, it's It can spread just that. But some good news. When government officials crack down with stay at home laws, Tectonic says it seems to work. At least it is in Baltimore for the Baltimore video. What we're looking at is social distancing in action. The video starts before any sort of travel restrictions and the closing of non essential distances by Governor Hogan on it. Fast forwards to after those restrictions have been put in place so you can see the number of people that were out about really drop off. The company wanted us to point out they aren't tracking the identities of the cell phone owners. Just the signals themselves for the research. They tell us they're actually in touch with government officials right now. The supply data is this crisis continues and hope to use the information for good back to you.

Experts continue to recommend social distancing as a measure to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Data from mobile phone signals on a map illustrates the profound impact of heeding that advice. The data visualization company Tectonix mapped mobile phone signals over a period of time, revealing travel patterns before and after social distancing. Watch the video above to see how much–or how little–social distancing was happening on a beach in South Florida during spring break, over a two-day period in New York, and before and after measures went into effect in Baltimore.

Experts continue to recommend social distancing as a measure to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Data from mobile phone signals on a map illustrates the profound impact of heeding that advice.

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The data visualization company Tectonix mapped mobile phone signals over a period of time, revealing travel patterns before and after social distancing. Watch the video above to see how much–or how little–social distancing was happening on a beach in South Florida during spring break, over a two-day period in New York, and before and after measures went into effect in Baltimore.